Hull City
Council’s Make £5 Blossom project will be holding its 14th end celebration
event sponsored by the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank at the Guildhall on
April 26th the and will see primary and secondary school pupils,
sharing their enterprising journeys of how they used a loan they received from
their business partners to hopefully make a profit. The only boundaries set for
the young people was that their ideas would need to have an element of
involving the promotion of Hull as the City of Culture, other than that they could be as enterprising as they
wanted. The pupils at Craven Primary Academy produced Hull themed badges
working with KCOM’s Community Manager Brendon Smurthwaite, whilst Wansbeck
Primary held a musical evening, a number of the enterprising pupils held
Christmas and Easer Fairs whilst Gillshill Primary designed and created Hull
themed shopping bags.
Each
group of young people were given a loan of £150 in November 2015 as part of
Global Entrepreneurship Week from their business partner and have had to show
their entrepreneurial spirit whilst using the Big 13 Enterprise Skills to
hopefully make a profit, this will then be shared between our enterprising
young people, our charity of the year Action Duchenne www.actionduchenne.org which is the most common fatal genetic disorder diagnosed
in childhood, affecting approximately 1 in every 3,500 live male births (around
2500 people have DMD in the UK) and the Be Enterprising Group of
practitioners.
Involvement in this round has included Mersey Primary/ Estcourt
Primaries with AB Rooms, Woodlands
Primary with AA Global, Tweendykes with Netopian, Griffin Primary with
Inspireignite, Wansbeck with Daniel Barker Music,St Marys College with Swift
Group, Biggin Hill Primary with St Stephen’s Shopping Centre, Buckingham Prmary
with Pepperell’s Solicitors, Gillshill Primary with Active Humber,
Francis Askew Primary and Courage Queen,Priory Primary and 360 Accountants and
Craven Primary Academy with KCOM.
Daniel
Barker DM Music said:
"As
a teacher and musician it has been fantastic working with such a great team of
young people from Wansbeck, they have all shown great enthusiasm in getting the
project going, taking a good idea and turning it into a great business
opportunity. I think with a little more time they will continue to flourish ….
And who knows where the enterprising pupils I have worked with could end up”
Mike Notarantonio, Youth
Enterprise Officer, Hull City Council
“I am really looking forward to seeing what ideas the young people
have come up with for the Make £5 Blossom celebration event here at the
Guildhall, it is always an inspirational event and I am sure everyone of the
schools involved will have put their enterprising skills to the test. It should
be a great event with all the schools and their business partners attending to
show their support for each other”
Further
Information
As
part of £5 Blossom pupils learn about the Big 13 Enterprise Skills Negotiating and Influencing, Risk Management, Effective
Communication, Positive Attitude, Leadership,
Product Service and Design, Organising and Planning, Problem
Solving, Making Ethical Decisions, Financial Literacy, Team Work, Creativity
and Innovation and using your Initiative
In the previous rounds schools in Hull have worked with over 120
different businesses and the pupils have made £1000’s in profit and over 4000
pupils have been involved.